This weekend has seen a lot of updates, in contrast to our recent slow trundle along, thanks to Sheexy’s massive scanning quest and gallery upheave. Head on over to the gallery to check those out. Deques and Ailise meanwhile have been working behind the scenes to make the site run smoother and cleaner, so expect improvements to hit the site soon enough. From my end of things, I’m still working at getting things together for upcoming content. This is taking longer than anticipated due to work mainly, but also, I confess, as a consequence of Apollo Justice needing some help to sort out his clients. And things are only going to get worse on that front, because with Mugen no Frontier in my hands, and Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (remember the one that I promised I wouldn’t play in Japanese so it did’t interfere with covering Heroes of Mana?) about to his the shops, there are only so many hours in the day left!

And thank you for keeping your suggestions coming in with regards to what you want to see. Some of them, funnily enough, are covered in two of the projects that I have running for the site as I type, so hope you enjoy those when they see the light of day.

But, I’ve made a start at least. As part of today’s Mana Music Monday, you’re also getting coverage of some of the more prominent fan-made albums inspired by music from the Seiken Densetsu series. Known as Doujin in Japanese (and not refering to certain manga spin-offs), 5 albums in particular have hit the market in past years that remix or rearrange tracks from the games. Head on over to our Soundtracks section and look under Doujin Albums for tracklists, samples, and where to buy them. I’ll also be elaborating on the reviews a bit more when I get the chance.

And to start you off, this week’s MMM is a complete track from one of those albums; Legend III -Mana- by Lukard, and the track is Battle 1 from Final Fantasy Adventure.

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So it wasn’t mentioned in the earlier post, but what happened with the server is that it burned the heck down.

Ok so it was just the networking equipment that was damaged; the server ended up taking no damage.
Depending on how you look at it, today’s track is either extremely appropriate or extremely inappropriate. I’ll leave you to be the judge of that.

Burning Spirits by Kenji Ito and Tsuyoshi Sekito, from the Dawn of Mana Soundtrack.
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This Monday we’ve got The Other Truth by Yoko Shimomura. This music is used in the Faerie Arc, which not many people like, just like the rest of the arcs it has its own musical themes and they are really nice.

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Enjoy the music and expect to see some updates about scans from me this week, and possibly a new section to the Merchandise page.

The music update might be late, but hey, I’m back.
Maybe I will work on stuff?

The two tracks are In Search of the Sacred Sword and Seeking the Holy Sword by Kenji Ito, and they are the same track. The first is from Final Fantasy Adventure and the second is the remake of it for Sword of Mana.
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We’re back again with a sample from the Drammatica CD, the Best of Yoko Shimomura, and this time we’re up with Legend of Mana’s title theme. Enjoy!

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Bringing you a piece this week from Yoko Shimomura’s drammatica album, released recently and which includes music from Legend and Heroes of Mana, specifically To the Heroes of Old, the title theme from Heroes of Mana. The album is fully orchestrated, and can be purchased now from Square Music Online, Amazon, and CocoeBiz among others. See our Soundtracks page for further details on how you can get hold of this masterpiece, and of course more about who Yoko Shimomura is.

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Also, if you have any requests for next weeks MMM, please comment here, or drop us a line, and we’ll see what we can pull out of the hat for your listening pleasure.

Ok, so I’m swamped with a ton of stuff and I haven’t been/won’t be very active lately. When I get unbusy I have promises of new content and new pages etc. etc.
Until then, here is Long Goodbye by Hiroki Kikuta.

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It’s a little earlier Music update. Too compensate last week’s late update. This track is from Legend of Mana, the title theme. I find it very harmonic, you might like it like I do.

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I know, it’s late… It can’t be helped, I actually have to work for a living and do lots of hours, which means that some of the rest of the time I have to sleep, what can I say. But here it is, a remix of In Darkness’ Depths from Secret of Mana, done by Mana Label, a curious choice of track when you think about it.

This week we’ve got the SD3 boss track Strange Medicine by Hiroki Kikuta up for your listening pleasure. Along with it you’ll find a remix by Aether which is really faithful to the mood of the track.
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